Massimo Di Giorgio

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Massimo Di Giorgio
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Personal information
National team Italy 25 caps (78-83) [1]
Born (1958-03-22) 22 March 1958 (age 67)
Verona, Italy
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Sport Athletics
Event High jump
Club Fiamme Oro Padova
Achievements and titles
Personal best
  • High jump: 2.30 m (1981)
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
European Indoor Championships 001
Mediterranean Games 100
European Cup 001
Total102
European Indoor Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1983 Budapest High Jump
European Cup
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg European Cup 1981 Zagreb]
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1979 Split High Jump

Massimo Di Giorgio (born 22 March 1958) is a former Italian high jumper, who won three medals at senior level at the International athletics competitions. [2]

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Biography

He finished fifteenth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships, [3] won the gold medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games and won a bronze medal at the 1983 European Indoor Championships. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in June 1981 in Udine. [4]

1980 Moscow Olympics boycott

Italian athletes serving in its military corps could not attend the Games, however, because of the national government's official support of the boycott. [5] In 1980 Massimo Di Giorgio, like other leading Italian athletes (the swimmer Marcello Guarducci, the modern pentathlete Daniele Masala and the judoka Ezio Gamba) who in Moscow in 1980 would have had medal ambitions, could not participate in those Olympic Games because belonged to military bodies. Ezio Gamba resigned from the military body in time and was able to participate in the Games under the IOC flag, it was not so for the others.

The day when the winners of the Olympic gold medals, Pietro Mennea, Sara Simeoni and Maurizio Damilano were appointed Knights of the Italian Republic by the Italian President Sandro Pertini, Di Giorgio and Guarducci went to protest at the Quirinale because they believed that they too would have to have equal recognition. [5]

The candidacy for President of FIDAL

In 2004, at the age of 46, Massimo di Giorgio decided to propose his candidacy as President of the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL), [6] he was then defeated by the former Italian middle-distance runner Franco Arese. [7]

National records

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTimeNotes
1979 European Indoor Championships Flag of Austria.svg Vienna 9thHigh jump 2.18 m
European Cup Flag of Italy.svg Turin 4thHigh jump2.24 m
Mediterranean Games Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Split 1stHigh jump 2.26 m CR
1981 European Cup Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Zagreb 3rdHigh jump2.26 m
World Cup Flag of Italy.svg Rome 6thHigh jump 2.15 m [note 1]
1982 European Indoor Championships Flag of Italy.svg Milan 8thHigh jump 2.22 m
1983 European Indoor Championships Flag of Hungary.svg Budapest 3rdHigh jump 2.27 m PB [note 2]

National titles

Massimo Di Giorgio has won 7 times the individual national championship. [9] [10]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ At the fiisrt edion of the IAAF World Cup the Italy team was invited as the organizing country.
  2. ↑ Ex-aequo with the Polish Mirosław Włodarczyk.

References

  1. ↑ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009. p. 173.
  2. ↑ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - UOMINI" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  3. ↑ 1978 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final
  4. ↑ "Italian all-time list, men's high jump (last updated 2000)" (in Italian). digilander.libero.it. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Ad un salto dalla gloria, Massimo Di Giorgio e le Olimpiadi negate di Mosca" (in Italian). udinetoday.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Di Giorgio si candida alla presidenza Fidal" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Franco Arese è il nuovo presidente FIDAL" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  8. ↑ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009. p. 566.
  9. ↑ ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  10. ↑ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
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